Paper filing panel



R. E. WELLS PAPER FILING PANEL Filed Feb. 27, 1945 fao Dec. 11, 1945.

|l|| v im a O O O O. 0 O e i Patented Dec. 11, 1945 Y PAPER FILING PANEL Roy E. Wells, Jamestown, N. Y., assignor to Art Metal' Construction Company,

Jamestown,

N. Y.,a corporation of Massachusetts Application February 2 7, 1943, Serial No. 477,423

e claims.

This invention relates to paper filing panels and is more especially, though not exclusively, concerned with panels intended to receive the ends of bendable paper, wood, or other strips in channels on both faces of the panel, though it might conceivably be applied to panels having on one face only channels to receive the ends of bendable carriers for overlapping sheets of a self-indexing file of the so-called visible type. In either case, the panel comprises a relatively light, weak, bendable, brous web of pressboard, for example, surrounded by a, relatively strong reinforcing frame of steel, for example, though in some cases molded plastic might be employed to advantage, in which case the frame might be molded in one piece about the web. In any case, the web is relatively light, readily obtainable material and the complete panel is much lighter and more easily manufactured than a panel in which the web is of steel, for example.

The invention will best be understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing of one specific embodiment thereof, while its scope will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Fig. l is an elevation of a paper filing panel embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale on line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale on line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing and to the embodiment of the invention illustrated therein by way of example, there is shown a filing panel comprising a generally rectangular web 8 of relatively light, weak, bendable, compressible, fibrous material such as pressboard. In this example, the corners of the web are cut away obliquely as at 8 to provide room for gussets l0 of a relatively strong and rigid,-rectangular, reinforcing frame I2 about all four margins of the web.

The reinforcing frame, in the present instance, comprises two members I4, I4 at top and bottom, for example, provided with channels I6, I6 which receive top and bottom marginal portions of the web 6, and two members I8, I8 at the sides, for example, provided with channels 20, 20 which receive lateral marginal portions of the web. In the event that these members are made of steel they may be squeezed, as shown, to compress the margins of the compressible, fibrous In case it is desired to le papers on both faces of the panel, the lateral members I8 are provided with additional channels 26, 28 adjacent both faces of the Web to receive the ends offlexible strips to be filed. In other cases, it may be desirable to provide these additional channels at one face only of the web, and it may be desirable to make these channels of suicient dimensions to admit, for example, trunnions on the ends of flexible card carriers sprung into place.

Reverting to the gussets 8, these lie in the same plane as the web 6 and brace the frame I2 at its corners, thus giving needed strength to the frame and compensating for the relative weakness of the web 6. The outer margins of the gussets are received in the channels I8 and 20 and are suitably secured as by spot Welding to the members I 4 and I8. The ends of the upper and lower members I4, I4 extend into the channels 26, 26 of the lateral members I8, I8, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and are likewise secured as by spot welding. This feature still further strengthens the corners of the frame.

Where, as in the present example, the panel is intended to be hingedly mounted, the frame IB is completed by the addition of a lateral member 28 which embraces the squeezed margin of one of the lateral members I8 and is suitably secured as by spot welding thereto. Upper and lower hinge pieces 3D, 30 are received in notches 32, 32 in the member 28, and turn on pintles presented by a wire 34. Other arrangements may be employed for the mounting of the panel, as, for example, when the panel is to be employed in a paper file in which the panel is in the nature of a drawer slidable in a cabinet, or where the panels are hinged at one set of narrower edges and are arranged in a stack in vertical series, i. e., superposed and resting upon one another.

In any case, the use of 'the relatively light,

invention, what I claim and desire, by Letters Patent, to secure is:

1. In a paper filing panel, a web having corners cut away obliquely, and a frame about and having channels. receiving margins of said web and having also channels to receive papers to be led, said. frame including gussets disposed in the same plane as said web and occupying spaces left by the cutting away of said corners.

3. In a paper filing panel, a four-sided. web having corners cut away obliquely, and a frame about and having web-receiving channels at all four sides and paper-filing channels at two opposite sides, said frame including gussets and disposed in the same plane as said web and' occupying spaces left by the cutting away of said corners and also occupying said web-receiving channels and said paper-ling channels.

4. In a paper iiling panel, a four-sided web having corners cut away obliquely, and a metallic frame about and having web-receiving channels at all four sides and paper-receiving channels at two opposite sides, said frame including channel members and gussets and disposed in the same plane as said web and occupying spaces left by the cutting away of said corners and aiilxed to said channel members.

5. In n. ling panel, the combination of a web having four margins, and a, frame about all four magins of said web, said viframe comprising four members along said margins, respectively, and reinforcing, corner gussets disposed in the same plane Vaosaid web and within a rectangle bounded by said members.

6. Ina ling panel, the combination of a web having four margins, and a frame about all four margins of said web, said frame comprising four members having channels which receive said margins, respectively, and reinforcing, corner gussets having margins also received in said channels within a, rectangle bounded by said members and disposed in the plane of said web.

ROY E. WELLS.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 2,590,97L1. December 11, 19115.

ROY E. WELLS.

It is hereby certified that error appears in Ithe printed specification of' the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 2, first column, line 17, claim 5, and second column, lin'e il, claim l1, after "gus-` setsH strike out "and"; and that the said Letters Patent should -be read with this correction therein that the Same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 19th day of February, A. D. 19h-6,.

Leslie Frazer (Seal) First Assistant Commissioner of Patents 

